Benevolent and Corrective Humor, Life Satisfaction, and Broad Humor Dimensions : Extending the Nomological Network of the BenCor Across 25 Countries

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10902-019-00185-9" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10902-019-00185-9</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10902-019-00185-9" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10902-019-00185-9</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Benevolent and Corrective Humor, Life Satisfaction, and Broad Humor Dimensions : Extending the Nomological Network of the BenCor Across 25 Countries

Original language description

Benevolent and corrective humor are two comic styles that have been related to virtue, morality, and character strengths. A previous study also supported the viability of measuring these two styles with the BenCor in 22 countries. The present study extends the previous one by including further countries (a total of 25 countries in 29 samples with N = 7813), by testing the revised BenCor (BenCor-R), and by adding two criterion measures to assess life satisfaction and four broad humor dimensions (social fun/entertaining humor, mockery, humor ineptness, and cognitive/reflective humor). As expected, the BenCor-R showed mostly promising psychometric properties (internal consistency and factorial validity). Consistent with previous studies, benevolent humor correlated positively with life satisfaction in most countries, while corrective humor was uncorrelated with life satisfaction. These relationships were only slightly changed when controlling for social fun/entertaining humor and mockery, respectively. Benevolent humor was mostly positively associated with cognitive/reflective humor, followed by social fun/entertaining humor and mockery. Corrective humor was mostly positively associated with mockery, followed by cognitive/reflective and social fun/entertaining humor, although these relationships differed between the countries. Overall, the present study supports the viability of benevolent and corrective humor, which has yet received insufficient attention in psychology, for cross-cultural investigations and applications of humor, well-being, and morality.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

JOURNAL OF HAPPINESS STUDIES

ISSN

1389-4978

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

21

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

2473-2492

UT code for WoS article

000490876200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85074560350